ASYNC as a parameter

by EvanJPalmer

Just a small, useless thought I had today regarding using async as a parameter – for example in an asynchronous jquery ajax call:

$.ajax({
url: "file.php",
type: "POST",
async: true
});

Considering the word “asynchronous” is the antonym of its root “synchronous” – it means, “not synchronous” – shouldn’t we use “sync” and invert the defaults? I mean, you would never give any other parameter or method a negated name. You’d never see this for example: